The three people arrested in two Horry County convenience store murders and robberies appeared before a Magistrate Judge Saturday.
The judge denied bond for all the three men, and a circuit court judge will set bond in general sessions court. Court officials say that hearing could come in a month.
Trisha Stull’s family was at the 3 p.m. first appearance. Stull’s family told the judge Stull’s fiance is a half-brother of the McKinley and James Daniels. The Daniels brothers are charged with murdering Stull.
Two Loris men and another man from Nichols are charged with murder from armed robberies at both Sunhouse stores that were targeted in January, Lt. Raul Denis of the Horry County Police announced at a 3 pm press conference Friday in Conway.
The trio was also charged in an armed robbery that happened at a Myrtle Beach Scotchman gas station the same night as the most recent deadly robbery.
Bala Gopal Paruchuri, a 40-year-old father of 2 who was the owner of a Longs gas station and convenience store, was killed in the first deadly armed robbery on Jan. 2.
Trisha Stull, a 30-year-old mom, was shot and killed Jan. 25 at the Sunhouse convenience store near Conway — the second fatal robbery at a Horry County convenience store in just over 3 weeks.
The arrested men are: McKinley Daniels, age 33, of Loris; James Daniels, age 27, of Nichols and Jerome Jenkins, age 20, of Loris, Horry County Police said.
They are all charged with 2 counts of murder, 3 counts of armed robbery and 1 count of attempted murder — which is related to the Myrtle Beach Scotchman robbery on Lake Arrowhead Road, police said.
Police said that a search of a”person of interest’s” home in Loris was what lead to the arrests. In the home, police said they found evidence that connected one of the three men to the deadly robberies and the Scotchman armed robbery.
According to a police report about Stull’s death, Horry County Police officers were called to a holdup alarm at the Sunhouse convenience store on Oak Street, near Conway, a little after 10 p.m.
Officers arrived to find evidence of a shooting and the clerk deceased after she was shot.
Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick said via press release that Stull was shot twice and died at the scene.
The suspects were described as two black males in dark hooded sweatshirts, one wearing red sweatpants, black tennis shoes, a light colored undershirt, and a dark cloth mask over his face, and the other wearing jeans, black and white tennis shoes, and white cloth mask over his face.
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This was the second deadly armed robbery of a Sunhouse convenience store in Horry County in the month of January.
In the first robbery, two men with masks came into the store in near Longs and shot Paruchuri “multiple times” during an armed robbery.
Suspects from the armed robberies were caught on surveillance video.
The Horry County Police on Friday during the press conference thanked other agencies for helping them with a special task force that was formed to solve deadly crimes.
” The Horry County Sheriff’s Office, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the 15th Circuit Solicitor’s Drug Enforcement Unit, the Myrtle Beach Police Department, the Conway Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), each provided much needed and deeply appreciated assistance in this investigation,” Horry County Police officials said Friday.